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In death, the personality disappears, the senses also disappear; but the atoms live on for ever. The
heavier atoms descend to the earth: but the soul atoms, which are composed of fire, ascend to the
celestial regions, whence they came.

(iv) The Atom in Sensation and Knowledge

(a) The Mind or Soul is composed of fire atoms, which are the finest, the smoothest, and the
most mobile. These fire atoms are distributed throughout the whole universe; and in all animate
things, and especially in the human body, where they are found in the largest numbers.

(b) External objects constantly give off emanations or minute images of themselves. These in
turn impress themselves upon our senses, which set in motion our Soul atoms, and thereby create
Sensation and Knowledge. (Diogenes Laertius Book IX p. 443–455). (Wm. Turner's History of
Philosophy p. 65–70). (Roger's Students History of Philosophy p. 40–42). (Zeller's History of
Philosophy p. 76–83). (B. D. Alexander's History of Philosophy p. 37–41).

5. Summary of Conclusions Concerning the Pre-Socratic Philosophers and the History of the
Four Qualities and Four Elements.

I. The early Ionic philosophers have been given the credit of teaching the following doctrines (a)
Thales, that all things originated from water, (b) Anaximander, that all things originated from
Primitive matter, i.e., the boundless (to apeiron), and (c) Anaximenes, that all things get their life
from air. But these ideas were not new at the time when these men are supposed to have lived,
i.e., between the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The creation story, found in the book of Genesis,
speaks of the elements of water, air and earth as the cosmic ingredients of the chaos out of which
creation gradually developed. The date of the Pentateuch is placed at the eighth century B.C.; but
the view of the Mosaic authorship of Genesis takes us still further back into antiquity, and many
centuries before the time of the Ionian philosophers. We are told not only by the bible, but also
by the historian Philo, that Moses was an Initiate of the Egyptian Mysteries and became a
Hierogrammat; learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptian people. This was only possible by
proper initiation and gradual advancement, when evidence of fitness was demonstrated by the
Neophyte. The Egyptian name of Moses was given to all candidates at their baptism, and meant
"saved by water".

The Exodus of the Israelites appears to have occurred in the 21st Egyptian Dynasty, i.e., 1100
B.C. in the reign of Bocchoris under the leadership of Moses, whose creation story of Genesis is
clearly of Egyptian origin. It is clear that the early Ionic Philosophers drew their teachings from
Egyptian sources. (Chaeremon: Jos. C. Apion I, 32; Philo; Ancient Mysteries C. H. Vail p. 61;
John Kendrick's Ancient Egypt vol. 2 p. 268–270; 303; See also Dr. Hasting's Bible Dictionary,
on authorship and date of Pentateuch).

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